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But I went on about it so. What's a tea cup! Your Uncle Hendreary never drank a thing that wasn't an out of a common acorn cup, and he's lived to a ripe old age and had the strength to emigrate. My mother's family never had nothing but a little bone thimble which they shared around. But it's once you've had a tea cup, if you know what I mean… (3.13)

Shmoop has a hunch that Homily would like this song. Because really, now that she's had a taste for fancy china teacups, how could she go back to drinking from a regular acorn cup?